Penguin Readers

The other day we were hunting through some of the boxes in my bedroom and came across this... which I had actually bought for Robynne quite a few years ago - when she was still at school - along with another book cassette pack, - which we have yet to find lol - from Poundland, so decided to get Robynne to work through it, just for fun as it is a level 3 and in she should be on the level 6 ones. Amazingly she has almost finished even tho' she finds the book a little creepy - she's not really into Edgar Allen Poe - not sure why, but there you go. But anyway she has enjoyed it, shall hunt out the other one later. So I thought I'd look up online to see if I could find anymore and found the Penguin Readers site....

They have some really lovely books listed, with cassettes or cd's and their not too bad of a price. The free resources are fairly good to, and you don't need to join to access them all. We have had a look at and printed off the fact/worksheet for Memoirs of a Geisha and Robynne has now gone off to the Library to find the book, so that will be her English work for the next week sorted. With a whole list of others for her to work through as and when she wants to. Now if only could get her interested in Maths.

Ok so now the house is quiet for a while shall just play for a little bit....

Time sure does Fly...

Scince my last post have been relatively busy, what with one thing and another - website work, mild LEA contact panic, great monthly H.E meeting and Cosplay outfit for Robynne - phew that was fun... and in the middle of all that had my parents visiting lol

So in order lol
Website work - well to be honest haven't done as much as I intended to, but it's geting there have nearly finished the shop page so that should - fingers crossed - be ready to go up at the end of the month a little later than I wanted but, would rather get it right first time.

LEA - well this was the letter that I recieved on the morning of our last H.E meet which sent me into a little bit of panic.....

..... there was also a form for me to fill in, more in next paragraph lol.

H.E Meeting - this was really great, lots of new people and some we hadn't seen in a while. The children all had a great time and some lovely things were made. I am really enjoying the meetings and always look forward to the next one coming around. Also re previous paragraph showed the letter to some of the other mum's and was advised on the correct way to fill in the lovely form that they had sent, was going to photocopy it and post here but, well have filled it in now and it's making it's way down to there offices as I type lol, so not only great time at meeting, but after chatting to the other mum's silly LEA letter was busted and held no threat .... phew

Cosplay Outfit - So Robynne and her friends Dee, Joe and Seth - with Andy walking with them as chaperone and Dee's family following in the car doing a great impression of the paparazzi ... lol - did a Cosplay sponsored walk on Sat 10th to raise money for Red Nose Day, not sure how much they have raised yet, but from what some of them have said they have raised over £100 between them so thats good, plus there looking forward to do it again next time Red Nose Day comes round again. Hopefully they will have a few more friends join them and will give some of us a little more time for costume preperations lol. Anyway this was the pic that Robynne drew for me of what she wanted her costume to look like....








... which after a few days work turned into this...




A couple more photo's from Saturday.....





... these were taken by Dee




You can find more photo's here....

AC:WW

Oh my goodness, we have Animal Crossing and I am addicted. I never wanted to be just thought would have a litle play and put it down lol. We only got the game on Monday, as Robynne and Andy decided to take some games to trade in. I knew she wanted AC:WW as she had liked when she borrowed from a friend, I was also vaguely aware of the game. But I never thought it would get me, but it has... I paid the mortgage off in less than two days. The only thing that is sad is I have no friends who play the game, mmmm maybe they are more sensible than me lol and knew of it's hidden attraction and kept away. Does anyone know of a support group for poor addicted people like me....... no oh well shall go back to it then.



On another note have gotten the next issue of our H.E mag "tHE Sound" all finished and will be sending that out on Friday. It felt a bit touch and go this time, as it was all finished and printed bar Robynne's comic strip which she left to the last minute, so she felt like I was rushing her. But as Andy told her 'if you had done when you were asked, you would have finished it then'....... So fingers crossed, we won't have the same problems next month.

Currently we are in the process of making stickers to go on every available item in the flat, with there Japanese names on. Not just in Japanese but also in Kanji as Robynne is learning Japanese and labelling the whole flat will help...... mmmmm can't see the cat enjoying a label on her back tho'. But thankfully we won't be goingthat far as Robynne already knows the name for cat, she - that's Robynne not the cat - found a really great downloadable resource and is using it for at the least an hour a day. Where did she get that from now.... will just check, it's one she found herself not one of the twenty odd that I found for her when she expressed an interest in learning Japanese. Ok here it is it's called Japanese learning Suite it does take over an hour to download, but I took a brief look at it today and found it very good.

Robynne is also now getting back into practising her guitar everyday and she has even agreed to work through her theory books too. Which I'm really pleased about. Then last night Robynne asks me if her bike works as she wants to get a little fitter and riding her bike would be fun. Funny that, we were going to get rid of her bike cause she didn't want it anymore, it's been sat on the balcony for over two years. She won't be riding it any time soon tho' as for one the inner tubes are shot and well it's too small for her. When I bought it I never expected her to sprout up like she has. The funny thing is have been saying for a while that we were all going to get new bikes and Robynne has point blank refused to have anything to do with one. So we shall see how long this lasts for.

Things never change...

... sorry but this is just so funny had to share....



*Well it seems that this is no longer working, ah well it was fun while it lasted. But just in case you really wanted to find the song for yourself - tho' have searched to replace this and no luck so far - it's 'High School Never Ends' by Bowling for Soup.

It's a Thank-You blog today

Doesn't time fly, I didn't realize that I had spent so much time away from H.E. this past week. I have been learning so much about building websites and all those seemingly insignificant little bits of code, that have such great effects. That I haven't been noticing the world around me. I even missed activities well one activity, we were as a family planning on joining our H.E friends for the monthly woodland walk, but the code dragged me back in and I just plain forgot about it till I read through blogs late one night.

I shall blame the lovely book Robynne got me form the library "HTML 4 for Dummies" which to tell the truth have read three times and it still confuses me, thank goodness for 'copy and paste' and good old 'trial and error' as apart from the shop area our business website is more or less finished. Also thanks to Ann and her help I now have a nice link button on the right. I have given up on oscommerce as it's not compatible with our sites host, so I found a nice ecommerce item through another blog so thanks go to Qalballah for that. Must also thank Shirley for all her help, she probably doesn't think she helped me much, but she did. But, the main person I have to thank aloud is my darling daughter Robynne who has put up with my grunts and groans when things haven't worked and who oh so patiently showed me again and again what I did wrong, then checked through different codes to see why things didn't work. Plus she hasn't complained when I've been on the computer for hours on end and she wanted to be lol. Oh better not forget my brother Andy who as always makes sure we drink and eat, even when we don't think we need to lol.

So for the next few days I am going to leave the computer alone, well maybe not totally alone. Shall be concentrating on finishing off my work area and getting things sewn up. So again thanks to all those who have helped me get this venture off the ground. Ok better get on, now where did I put that book again ...... lol

Lets catch up.

Well what a fun time we have been having. Scince my last post we have been busy, what with taking care of our friends three dogs, walking them etc. we ended up with one of them taking up residence for a short while as she got into a fight with the others and came of worse. Resulting in some rather nasty holes in her leg and underbelly. Personally it was rather nice having her around, Robynne got up early to take her out, she also took her out often during the day I think the dog adopted her as she only asked Robynne to take her out. Tho' am pretty sure Robynne didn't enjoy the wet nose in her face first thing in the morning lol.

Unfortunately we never made it to The Science Museum, as well the world conspired against us and roadblocks were forced in our way. Well to be honest we could have made it, but it would have meant leaving one of us behind and even tho' my lovely brother offered I didn't take him up on it. So fingers crossed we will get there sometime this year. Anyway our next outing to the V & A on the 11th April should go to plan.

Then we have the saga of the leaking pipe. Remember I made an appointment for someone to come fix the leaking pipe, well I waited paitently for just over two weeks and then after removing the third bleached towel from under the pipe I rang them again yesterday - well today would have been the third tuesday I had waited for them to come. - So anyway I rang them first thing only to find that the last appointment thay had on file for me was in December when the pipe burst in the first place. Understandably I was a little miffed at the news and promptly requested very politely a new appointment a.s.a.p, so there coming tomorrow after 3pm. Fingers crossed that's the last pipe problem we will have for a good while. Personally I think all the pipework needs replacing along with everything else, but can't expect miracles lol.

Oh and we ended up chucking out the old broken sofas yesterday as we now have some nice cream leather sofas which go so much better with the colour scheme and they make the room look so much bigger ok maybe not so much bigger, but they look good.

My work area is almost complete and we have the frontpage of the website up, we just need to get the other pages links working and to clear out the odd few bits left over from the website template that we don't need. Next job on that is to work out how to get the oscommerce programme to work. Anyway here's our frontpage if your interested Sewing Friend please do tell us what you think and if anyone can explain in simple words how to put the oscommerce stuff in then I will be eternally grateful.

Robynne and her friend Dee have decided to do something to raise money for Red Nose Day this year. So far I think they have got 6 of their friends involved and hopefully we will have more friends joining in too. Anyway here's Robynne's page which gives you details of what they are doing and when.

Oh and does anyone know how to turn this into a button/link to put in the sidebar

Oooh I wish I was a computer geek.....

...... well if only for 10 minutes, things are going well for setting up our new business, until we get to the website lol, it's there we have it, but no-one can see it yet. Why didn't I pay more attention to the computer at school and just stayed out of the warm safe library. We will get it sorted soon, anyway have done the most important thing, have designed a logo - well I thought it important - lol.

So anyway work wise this week has been taken up mostly with Robynne spending alot of time on building website thingys, yes thingys I call them that as have no idea what she was talking about but it looked good. I'm so glad she knows what she's doing or I would be truly lost, can just imagine how I would cope with business without her around. I'd probably end up deleting half the site within minutes lol.

That aside she was off at Chelmsford yesterday for Deep Readers, and today was our monthly H.E meeting which was a really great meeting, some new faces and the time really seemed to fly away. Robynne was even playing quite actively with some of the other youngsters, which was great to see - normally she sits in the corner drawing - as it makes me forget that she's getting older now.

Oh and as I haven't been able to figure out how to upload our H.E mag tHE Sound onto Blogger - there's probably something really simple that I'm missing ..... mmm like a brain - so I thought would do it this way lol. If you would like to see a copy of what the girls put together then send an Email here and I'll email you a pdf copy. See two things I finally worked out how to do lol, a nice email link and pdf'ing a document, oooh next year I could be Lord of the Web....... mmmmm well maybe not lol.

Well I was there

Oh what a fun afternoon we had, we went to the library nice and early even tho' it was snowing out there. Sat and waited for well over an hour - cause last year the lovely lady was an hour late - then decided to make the 2 minute walk to the Civic Centre and the Education department. Waited there just over half an hour only to find that the man had been there waiting for us at 11am. Funny that when we had made the appointment for 2pm, cause I really don't like mornings well unless it's for something fun, does meeting the LA bods count as fun, oh I surely think so. So in between our phonecall before christmas and there letter reaching us to confirm, the time for the meeting changed from 2pm to 11am. Silly me, I knew I should have read that confirmation letter from them, but again silly me, I thought they would keep the appointment time to that which we had arranged. Will know better next time.

So apart from the fact that Robynne managed to pick up a few more manga books, we had a fairly wasted afternoon. Oh and the lovely walk in the snow, which I enjoyed so much, really must do that again. Mmmmmm maybe I over did it on the sarcasm there lol.

tHE Sound

Our new local H.E. magazine was finally finished yesterday all ready to for distribution. Unfortunately we had no luck turning it into a pdf as for some reason, it wouldn't recognize the format we are using and when we saved it into a recognized format it screwed up all the pages. So am pretty glad we didn't buy that package then. Now am trying to workout how to link to it on here so that any of you lovely people that read my blog may take a look to, but, only if you want to of course.

Robynne has been fairly busy putting the mag together for me along with her friend Dee they managed to do quite alot on Monday. Tho' she did drag the last few bits and pieces out for as long as possible lol.

We are off to our meeting with the LA bod this afternoon, would rather be going swimming - even tho' I don't swim - personally, but when I rearranged the appointment I hadn't yet filled my diary in for the year and forgot about swimming. I did give Robynne the option of going swimming instead of the meeting, but, she seems to want to come and meet this new man, mmmmm wonder if she'll be as polite to him as she was to the last person we met.

Things on the business front are ploding along slowly, we should have the domain name and web hosting sorted out in a few days - maybe one day I'll get a credit card, apparently they make life easier lol - so it will be time for more learning with Robynne as she teaches me how to build a website lol. In the meantime we have been sorting my new sewing area out, we built the carcass of my new sewing table the other day. The next step is to make it safe and to cut out a hole for my light box to sit in. Ooh my favourite bit is next week when we go fabric shopping, for the material to make some animal hot water bottles. I really like the designs I made, but I think my fav at the moment is the horse one, with the saddle on it's back.

Oh and we now have slow leak on a water pipe leading to the main radiator in our living room, while I've been typing this, I have been on the phone to the repairs team and get this we have an appointment for someone to come fix this on Tues. Apparantly while it's contained its no danger, I guess as I've only gone through two towels, a cushion and only a corner of the sofa has gotten a little damp it's contained. Ah well at least it's not gushing like the last pipe. But, still Tues I can see I shall be checking it every 5 minutes now, just to see if it's safe. Thankfully there's no carpet under that bit of the pipe.

On another note we are planning trips to various London Museums this year with our group so if anyone wants to meet up with us that would be great. It would be nice to meet up with other H.Ers from other areas. I first visit is on the 7th Feb and were doing the Science Museum were meeting their at 11am. We've never been there before so were really looking forward to it.

*will pop a link for the mag in later as Robynne says we need to upload it somewhere or other lol, and I have no idea what she's means, so she's going to show me then I can share. I am teaching her at home honest......

Fingers Crossed and off We Go...

So have made the decsion I'm going for it, I'm going to start my business lol. I have received a load of lovely patterns from a lovely lady on freecycle, spoke to my mum and she's going to let me have all her patterns that she no longer uses - which means I'll have hundred's lol - and then after rearranging the living room for optimum space, all I need to do is get the website set up, sort out some example type things. Oh and make up some of the lovely cushions and hot water bottle covers that I designed last night. Oh and keep fingers crossed tightly, tho' that may hinder sewing slightly. Oh yeah and I need to think of a name for this venture too. Something catchy and says what I do, urge tis hard ah well something will spring to mind I'm sure. So look out for my little logo in the sidebar, and if you need anything made let me know.

*On a slightly scary note, am sitting here with the wind howling outside and suddenly had this sick feeling, the reason the building is swaying, literally swaying. I live six floors up - there's 15 in the building am so glad I'm not higher up - and I'm feeling seasick, I've never noticed the building sway before and I hope it stops soon, cause this is a little freaky.

Ok am gonna try not to think about that for now, may go wrap myself up in a duvet till it stops, but first need to find some puzzles for the new mag tHE Sound, pick a photo for our caption contest and make sure the list of everything to go in is all ready for the girls to sort out, originally we were going to have it A5 size, but, it's now A4, well it means we won't have to shrink the lovely artwork etc. that the kids have sent to be included. Plus Robynne is happy as she can make her comic strip a little bigger now. She has been working so hard on that, Monday she was in Chelmsford at the Deep Readers group, Tuesday was spent working on her comic strip and today she's in Chelmsford at the monthly H.E. meeting that she likes to go to every so often.

Right must get on now as this wind is really making me feel quite ill and I won't be able to sit here much longer.

Business or not?

Ok have now added a shiny new Flickr badge - it only took me two hours to finally work out how to do it lol - that has my dressmaking photo's on.

So who thinks I'm dreaming and who thinks I should go for it.....

Shall hide my head till the shouting has stopped lol. No really I've had a few people say I should go for it, but, well there my friends and they like me so their biased........

Well is that so....

Your Life Path Number is 11

Your purpose in life is to inspire others Your amazing energy draws people to you, and you give them great insight in return. You hold a great amount of power over others, without even trying. You have the makings of an inventor, artist, religious leader, or prophet. In love, you are sensitive and passionate. You connect with your partner on a very deep level. You have great abilities, but you are often way too critical of yourself. You don't fit in - and instead of celebrating your differences, you dwell on them. You have high expectations of yourself. But sometimes you set them too high and don't achieve anything.

What Is Your Life Path Number?

Well thanks for that one Shirley not sure whether to agree or not lol.

Our little H.E mag should be ready fingers crossed for distribution by the 1st Feb, I've got the layout sorted in my head it's just now left to Robynne and Dee to put it all together for us. So will have to work out a day when they can get together and do that. Also have lots of trips/visits on the cards, some that will need a bit of organising and some not so much. It's all more or less down to the phone calls now and hoping that people can fit us in oh and that people will want to come lol.

My diary is looking extremely well organized lol, with coloured dots for all the different activities. All I need to do now is try not to have any major clashes other than the one I noticed earlier lol. I some how managed to schedule our next LA meeting the same time as our visit to the swimming pool, mmmmm wether to cancel or just get darn thing out of the way decsions, decsions.....

All in all this week has been rather productive, fingers crossed next week will go as well. Well once I've got that back to work interview over with on Monday, have been mulling over the past month or two trying to make a decsion about starting a business making clothes. I think my main worry is that at the moment it's something I enjoy and I'm scared/worried that turning my hobby into a job may just take the fun out of it, that and all the dreaded paperwork involved.

Mmmm well was going to post up a couple of pics of things that I made last year, just to see if anyone out there thought I should give up the idea or go for it, but obviously blogger disagree's with me so may try again tomorrow - as I'm darned if I'm taking the computer's word for it......

You have a ......

You Have a Melancholic Temperament

Introspective and reflective, you think about everything and anything. You are a soft-hearted daydreamer. You long for your ideal life. You love silence and solitude. Everyday life is usually too chaotic for you. Given enough time alone, it's easy for you to find inner peace. You tend to be spiritual, having found your own meaning of life. Wise and patient, you can help people through difficult times. At your worst, you brood and sulk. Your negative thoughts can trap you. You are reserved and withdrawn. This makes it hard to connect to others. You tend to over think small things, making decisions difficult.

What Temperment Are You?

Ok where was this test 16yrs ago it would have saved so much time and energy lol. I can't believe how true it is especially the last paragraph.

All hail blogthings so wise if slightly illiterate...... HAHAHA

Six weird things about me.

Yay I think. Just when I thought I was safe Debs caught me and now I'm tagged lol. So anyway first the important stuff:-

Six weird things about me: THE RULES: Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.’ People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

Now then to think of only 6 weird things about me, mmmm tough call lol.

1. Before going to bed at night (or when ever lol) I have to check that all the light switches are turned off in the same direction.

2. I really don't like it when people leave the pick'n'mix lids up, I have to go round and shut them.

3. I can't eat before 11am, not sure when this started but, if I dare eat before 11am I end up feeling really sick all day.

4. I gave up smoking in one day, ok thats probably not so weird, but, when I know people who struggled for years to give up it feels weird.

5. I would rather suffer than take pain killers/ medication of any kind.

6. My youngest brother by 10yrs lives with my daughter and me. Well some of my family find it weird. I most of the time actually like having him around.

Lets see people to tag:-

Shirley
Carol
BJanecarp
Noogie
EmilyRoseanna
Robynne

I Love it when a plan comes together.

I have had dozens of ideas whirling round in my head for weeks of things that I want to aim for this year, one of which is to get Robynne - along with my brother Andrew - into an adult learning centre so she can do her GCSE's in English, Maths and Science. Hopefully we'll find a centre that will take her on, if so she'll probably start with doing just one and see how that goes. I know she wants to do Art and Drama too, but much as she hates the idea I think she may have to go to college for those, tho' we are on the look out for another Drama group for her to try.

Plus I have also spent the better part of the day sitting here at my desk working through other ideas for the coming year and even tho' I say so myself I think that this next year is looking to be very interesting. Especially once we meet up with Shirley and we get the last few bits ironed out. We should be well on the way to getting things sorted. So fingers crossed not only will we get the H.E'd magazine that we have been talking about doing for ages sorted by the end of the month. Were going to start nipping up to London for some highly educational museum visits. The first of which is going to be The Science Museum. Which is one place that I have been wanting to go to for years along with quite a few others so this year is going to be the year for at least some of the list.

Another major item that we really want to do this year is HesFes and fingers crossed we will get there this time round.

The OTHENA meetings are also taking on a new turn as from this January we have joined our monthly meeting in with Freya as working in a hall gives a little more scope, plus joining together makes alot of logistical sense. But, having said that we are going to hopefully make a monthly visit to the cinema as a group. The book group are reading Carpe Jugulum by Terry Prachett and should be meeting up sometime near the end of the month to discuss it.

Oh and we start back with our weekly visits to the swimming pool on Thursday and then next month we shall be getting back into the swing of things with the guitar group.

Plus am determined to try and get Robynne to work on some other subjects this year, yes she loves doing her Art and writing her fanfic stories, but it would be nice to have her make a cake lol. Now I'm pretty sure she won't turn into a domestic Goddess lol, and her art and writing are very important to her. She has great fun with her music too, not just the guitar, but her own compositions as well. We have all these CGP books which she reads fairly regularly and even does some of the work from, but she doesn't write much down. I suppose I get a little concerned sometimes that she does all this work and there doesn't seem much to show for it, not that we would be showing it. Which reminds me we have a visit with the LA bod on the 25th of this month, which should be interesting. Not that I'm that bothered really, well ok maybe a little bit have never really liked authority figures much and even tho' technically this would be Robynne's last year at school. I still don't want to see them try and force her back, she's so much more confident now and high school was such a nightmare. I just hope that she's a little more select with what she tells this guy as I get the impression that this visit may not go as well as the last. I'm not sure why but, my gut tells me he's not going to be an easy man to get on with.

Oh and you may have noticed a lime green box on my blog now. I decided to join the Home Ed blogring, I was always envious of those with the nice box for the early years blogring lol and even tho' she may act it sometimes we don't quite fit that age group. Anyway I think I'll get off to bed now, before my butt molds itself anymore to this chair lol.

Happy New Year....

..... to each and everyone, I hope that the year brings what we need and maybe a few things that we want lol.....

...and because it's funny here is my new title lol...

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Milady the Most Honourable Michelle the Indecisive of Dicken St Charles Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

oh and well here's the rest of the family ... well just because...

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Most Noble Lady Robynne the Perplexed of Chalmondley St Peasoup Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: The Very Reverend Andrew the Mystical of Old Yarkhillshire Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Christmas Tree 2006

Things you find when you look round the internet...

... So anyway a while ago I did a search for H.E. through the blogger network and found some interesting blogs and some not lol. Well through the ones that I started to read I found links to others and have now got a long list of Home Edders blogs all over the place that I know read regularly.

On one of these blogs a while ago I found some of those quiz's from Blogthings, you know the place I'm sure all of us at some point have done one of these daft things, their harmless and always give me a chuckle. I thought I would share the latest two that I saw on Dottyspots blog.

Your Christmas is Most Like: The Muppet Christmas Carol

You tend to reflect on Christmas past, present, and future... And you also do a little singing.

What Movie Is Your Christmas Most Like?

You Are A Weeping Willow Tree

You are a dreamer, and you're into almost any kind of escapism. Restless and capricious, you love to travel to exotic places. You are easily influenced by others, as long as they don't pressure you. You tend to suffer in love until you find that one loyal, steadfast partner. An empathetic friend, you love to make others smile and laugh.

What's Your Celtic Horoscope?

Is it just me or....

... does Christmas seem to creep up on us quicker each passing year. It seems like only last week we were down at the beach having Bar-b-que's in the pouring rain - is it only us that enjoy that or do other's take part in this dying art lol.

So anyway we spent the day, well Andy (my bro) and me not Robynne she spent most of day in bed suffering from a cold - which is why she should listen to me when told to wear a coat out in this weather, but well they never listen do they -. Tho' must admit we got most of the presents sorted out without her input, but, well she still had to check the list. Which I'm so glad she approved of everything I mean phew am sooo relieved what would we have done if she didn't, frankly nothing lol.

We should get out later in the week and get most everything bought - fingers crossed nothing is sold out - for the family before our brother and his family's annual prechristmas visit. I must admit to really looking forward to this every year, we don't spend as much time with him and his girls as I would like. But that's what happens when we don't drive and they live so far away, maybe one day.....

So that's the family sorted, well almost. Have even written the list for cards to post, I should get them written and posted later on today, but, I won't cause well it's my baby brother's birthday today and he's 26yrs old, so we may do something fun with him. Well we may go to the pictures, or we might get him the new game he wants, tho' as the main birthday treat for us all this year was to see Rocky Horror Show, he should really be happy. But at least the pictures will be fun for us all, tho' if I get the game it keeps him quiet for longer oooh big decisions can be so hard to make lol. I know will compromise and get the game as part of his christmas present.

So Wednesday is the last Guitar Club meeting of the year, what with illness and other commitments, I feel that we haven't progressed as far as I would have liked. But, then what does it matter, we can all learn as and when that is the beauty of H.E there's no set time to get things done.

I know at times this year has been hard and I have doubted what we have been doing in life, but I don't think I would really have changed any part of the journey thus far. Life is a journey there are bumps along the way and occasional sharp bends, but if you lose your way, there is always someone to guide you to another path and we all get where we should be in the end.

Do you ever think.........

.......Why do we bother, why do we put ourselves through the ringer everyday so some supposed smartarse can come along and tell us were doing it all wrong?

Well that's how I have been feeling lately not, just about H.E, but about life in general. I'm not complaining, well not much anyway, but just once in a while it would be nice if things at least seemed to be going right. Sorry there are a few things that are happening at the moment that as yet I can't share, but, as soon as they start going right I'm sure I'll be the first yelling them from the rooftops.

Ok little rant over, for the time being. As you can see it's been nearly a month since I last posted. I'm not sure why, actually to be honest, I haven't really felt the inclination, plus to be honest not much has been going on since I last posted. Well apart from the National Schools Film Week that so many of us took great delight in this year, can't wait to see what films are showing next year. It's not every week you can spend 4 out of 5 days at the cinema and only pay for 1 out of 4 movies. Incidentally my Robynne actually handled the early mornings quite well, and of all the movies for me to doze off in, it had to be the one we paid for. Tho' how I would of managed to sleep in any of the free films with all the lovely schooled children and their very vocal enjoyment of the films lol.... and did anyone else get what a lovely film Curious George is?

Then we had a very busy week or so what with Robynne's 15th Birthday and three birthday/halloween parties over the course of five days. Then I managed to go down with a rather nasty cold which ended up on my chest and to add the icing on the cake ended up with both Robynne and myself suffering. Tho' thankfully we had my brother Andy to take care of us both. (you know sometimes, I wonder how we would manage with out him around.... just don't tell him I said that)

Anyway I'm going to endeavour to be more disciplined with posting and not leave it so long next time. Oh we had Movie Afternoon on Friday, it's something we do on the last Fri of the month and we watched Rocky Horror Show, for 1)Cause it's an interesting Film and we recently bought it thanks to Shirley pointing out where it was currently on sale cheap. and for 2)Because were off to see it on stage next Friday and well I thought it might be a good idea for Robynne to have some idea of the story beforehand.

Then we have Guitar Club on the 6th which usually we do on the first Weds of the month, but it seems like months since we have met up for this. What with illness and things halting proceedings. Then our next OTHENA meet was going to be our Christmas Party, but instead were going to meet up and go to the cinema and see one of these movies... Happy Feet, Flushed Away, Eragon or maybe with it being Christmas Santa Clause 3.